posted on July 12, 2001 09:25:35 PM
I read at F*ckedcompany.com that AOL is going to layoff 10,000 to 12,000. AOL already had the layoffs at other divisions at Time/Warner.
Anybody read anything about this from any other sources ?
posted on July 12, 2001 10:55:15 PM
It is my only hope that AOL will layoff every single employee that they have and never reopen their doors again. If it wasn't for Steve Case's unethical corporate behavior, more busineses would have been not as lax about selling all of our private iunformation like a commodity. May he and AOL rot in Hell.
posted on July 13, 2001 02:16:44 AM
Why NOT lay off all but the minimum 3 needed to form the corperation? Combined with a policy of refusing to stop billings of customers who terminate service it should produce a stock price surge like has never been seen.
posted on July 13, 2001 01:46:50 PM
AMERICA OFF LINE thats what thay should call it.it's a joke,i want to leave it so bad, can any one tell me how i keep them from charging my credit card when i finally dump them? i have heard horror storys about that.
are there any class action suites? thanks for your input in advance.....bz
posted on July 13, 2001 03:35:18 PM
BZDELUX: BEWARE!
The moment you tell AOL that you no longer wish to be a member, your agreement between you and AOL is kaput! That means, that their pledge to not sell all of your information - including your credit card number and info without your cconcent, is dissolved. So, expect to get massive amounts of telemarketing calls, banks pushing credit card apps on you, junk mail, SPAM, the works for about three months to a year!
On top of that, expect AOL to call you at work and at home trying to get you back. These are professionals who won't take NO for an answer! My mom tried to get off of AOL because they kept resetting her Marketing Preferences and selling her info (yes, she got the *warning* e-mail, but who wants to read SPAM from AOL?). She was still back on it six months later because every time that she quit them, they'd harass her until she signed back on.
As far as being billed after I left, yes that did happen to me AND to my mother AND to everyone else I have known that got away from AOL. I had to go dispute the charges at my credit card company. I then had to call up an AOL number and hassle with them also. it took AOL SIX MONTHS to finally admit that the charges were not proper and stopped trying to bill me. Expect it to happen to you.
Looking back, what would I have done differently now that I would know what to expect? I'd change my payment method to sending in money orders. Just removing my credit card listed won't affect anything -- I'd need to cancel that card and have my bank re-issue another one with a request to never pay AOL through them. Then, when I stopped paying and quit my account, all I'd have to do is to say NO - GOODBY when they called me up and hang up the telephone.
posted on July 13, 2001 06:20:35 PM
I had the same crap from Compuserve and if I had it to do over I would call send a letter to my credit card company a week ahead of the ISP and tell them to refuse all future charges. I would also yell them to expect to see more charges.
Someone needs to hit them with a racketteering charge as systematically doing false billings IS that.
